Saturday, July 19, 2014

I'm as a much a fan as the next person as the sleek futuristic world of Star Trek, but what I've always loved about Doctor Who is that a lot of the contraptions the eccentric Time Lord invents are made of cobbled together parts and everyday objects (and we're not talking about the wobbly sets of the classic episodes).

Original animatronics and props used in Doctor Who

Here's a final collection of screen-used Whoniverse props, including TARDIS keys and destroyed Dalek eyestalks, from visiting the Doctor Who Experience exhibit in Cardiff Bay, Wales on May 20 and December 9, 2013.

Original screen-used Doctor Who props

Some of the other creations of the Doctor's on display included his Video Device from 2006's 'The Idoit's Lantern' in which in 1950's England David Tennant's Tenth Doctor trapped the 'Wire' creature in Betamax video cassette.

In 2010's fifth season episode 'Amy's Choice', Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor creates the whisk device to generate enough power for the TARDIS scanner.

Plus in another fifth season episode from 2010, 'Vincent and the Doctor', which featured an adventure with the famous troubled painter, Vincent van Gogh, the Doctor created this Monster Viewing Device to be able to see the invisible 'Krafayis' creature.

Doctor Who Dinosaurs on a Spaceship poster

One thing you can always count on in Doctor Who is the weird and the absurd, so it was pretty cool to see the animatronic Triceratops used in the seventh series episode, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (who was quite partial to chasing golf balls).